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  • Journal research data sharing policies: a study of highly-cited journals in neuroscience, physics, and operations research
    (2020-07-01) Rousi, Antti M.; Laakso, Mikael
     A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    The practices for if and how scholarly journals instruct research data for published research to be shared is an area where a lot of changes have been happening as science policy moves towards facilitating open science, and subject-specific repositories and practices are established. This study provides an analysis of the research data sharing policies of highly-cited journals in the fields of neuroscience, physics, and operations research as of May 2019. For these 120 journals, 40 journals per subject category, a unified policy coding framework was developed to capture the most central elements of each policy, i.e. what, when, and where research data is instructed to be shared. The results affirm that considerable differences between research fields remain when it comes to policy existence, strength, and specificity. The findings revealed that one of the most important factors influencing the dimensions of what, where and when of research data policies was whether the journal's scope included specific data types related to life sciences which have established methods of sharing through community-endorsed public repositories. The findings surface the future research potential of approaching policy analysis on the publisher-level as well as on the journal-level. The collected data and coding framework is provided as open data to facilitate future research and journal policy monitoring.
  • Overlay journals: A study of the current landscape
    (2024-03) Rousi, Antti Mikael; Laakso, Mikael
     A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Overlay journals are characterised by their articles being published on open access repositories, often already starting in their initial preprint form as a prerequisite for submission to the journal prior to initiating the peer-review process. In this study we aimed to identify currently active overlay journals and examine their characteristics. We utilised an explorative web search and contacted key service providers for additional information. The final sample consisted of 34 overlay journals. While the results show that new overlay journals have been actively established within recent years, the current presence of overlay journals remains diminutive compared to the overall number of open access journals. Most overlay journals publish articles in natural sciences, mathematics or computer sciences, and are commonly published by groups of academics rather than formal organisations. They may also rank highly within the traditional journal citation metrics. None of the investigated journals required fees from authors, which is likely related to the cost-effective aspects of the overlay publishing model. Both the growth in adoption of open access preprint repositories and researchers? willingness to publish in overlay journals will determine the model?s wider impact on scholarly publishing.
  • Tutkimusjulkaisujen avoimen saatavuuden suositus tutkimusrahoittajille
    (2021) Aaltonen, Mari; Edgren-Henrichson, Nina; Jaakkola, Minttu; Kaakinen, Leena; Kaiponen, Pälvi; Korhonen, Kalle; Kulkki, Kaisa; Laakso, Mikael; Lamberg, Jaana; Lattu, Annina; Nygren, Pekka; Syrjämäki, Sami; Varkemaa, Jussi; Vilén, Timo
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